Is C Really Going to Let N Talk About Her Like That?

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Some might call this a flustercluck. Photo Illustration: Courtesy of CW (Lively); Courtesy of New Yorker (logo)

Me-ow! Maybe she’s just being funny, but in her Gossip Girl think piece this week, the New Yorker’s Nancy Franklin displays a Blair-worthy level of cattiness regarding Cecily von Ziegesar, the creator of the books on which the CW show isbased.

I’ve been told that some kids in Manhattan’s private-school population resent the way they’ve been depicted in the show, but that tells me that there’s some accuracy to von Ziegesar’s portrait. (Or maybe they just want to distance themselves from a Nightingale graduate who can write a paragraph like this: “There was a box of orange Tic Tacs in her pocket with only one Tic Tac left. Serena fished the Tic Tac out and put it on her tongue, but she was so worried about her future, she could barely tasteit.”)

Well, as we all know, there’s nothing Gossip Girl likes more than a good catfight, and this could be aclassic!